I’ve been using vanilla dwm last couple days on the desktop and hate to admit never trying it before but wow, impressed with how concise the basic keybinds are. Still, no replacement for openbox on multiple displays but believe this may be my wm of choice for laptops and my old netbook. At first was a little put off about having to recompile to generate a config but it does, in the end make it more your own.

I’ve been using vanilla stock dwm Matt, so I have no config.h to share. I just wanted to become acquainted with the system, without my usual compulsion to begin changing the look and feel. Aside from wanting to autostart one or two services and set xrandr, there really are very few things I’d want to change.

Usually if dwm compiles successfully it will run. You don’t use a login manager like lightDM, right? Sounds like the kind of thing that happens if your startup script hangs; you missing an “&” in a script?